Windows RT

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi,

Please define "compatible". Does your customer say it doesn't even start 
up? Or does he say he it starts up but he can't work with it? What 
happens if he attaches a mouse and a keyboard to his device?

AFAIK the MS Surface Pro 2 and Pro 3 have standard, yet slow, Intel 
processors, which run normal versions of Windows Pro. This processor is 
also used in cheap netbooks. This tablet should be able to run LiveCode 
standalones --but I haven't tried it.

Tablets with Windows RT use an ARM processor, which is incompatible with 
LiveCode, meaning that a standalone won't even start.

You gave your customer correct information: Livecode runs on Windows 
tablets, but you didn't tell him that it doesn't run on Windows RT 
tablets. Just tell your customers that Windows tablets must have an 
Intel processor.

Currently, LiveCode runs on:
- Apple computers with Mac OS X 10.6 or later
- Almost any other Mac (depending on your version of LiveCode)
- Windows computers and tablets with Intel processors
(the minimum required version for Windows seems to be XP SP2)
- Raspberry Pi (with ARM processor)
- Android (with ARM processor)
- iPhone 3 and iPad, using iOS 4 and later.
(I'm not sure if iOS 3 will work).

Usually, in these cases I tell my customers: try it and let me know if 
it works :-)

--
Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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On 11/7/2014 09:20, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
> A customer asked me, if my desktop product would also run on tablets. I told
> him yes, if it is a tablet with Microsoft Windows system. He bought a
> surface 2 exclusively for my product (with Windows 8.1 RT) and now complains
> me, that he wasted his money for the tablet because my product isn't
> compatible with Microsoft Windows 8.1 RT.
>
> I have defined my system requirements, but I think I can't defined all NOTs,
> not for Windows RT, not for UNIX, not for Blackberry, not for . On the other
> hand it really isn't easy to differentiate all these specs for a non
> computer addicted customer.
>
> How do you handle these issues in your commercial products?
>
> Tiemo
>